[Narrator: It rained a few hours later]

Produced for @writteninair.bsky.social with the indefatigable @dnnsfnk.bsky.social

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The story follows Team Galbatross, who compete in the World Series of Birding and focus their efforts on the almost-Sisyphean task of only counting female birds. They travel through forests, beaches and wetlands, hoping to raise awareness in their conservation efforts

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New band name

Out of the narrative forest, but now wading in the marshes of SD. Hopefully should be out soon

Got mine a couple of weeks ago

Does this mean your Japanese Period is over?

I could do a Japanese konbini crawl the way other people do temple pilgrimages

Yep. Every time I come back to Australia after being overseas, the first thing that strikes me is all the prime land wasted on parking.

This 99pi episode goes into a lot of the Japan stuff 99percentinvisible.org/episode/firs...

I think they're not gigantic because the streets are small! And I'm pretty sure you can only buy a car if you have proof that you've got a parking space

Narrow streets ftw!

Glenn McDonald would probably agree with you on that. But streaming critics might say there's no way for those independent musicians to make a living/career out of it, and Spotify keeps making it harder for them to even get discovered

Hey a click's a click

It's the story of two childhood friends, Brian Johnson and Brian Morden, who bonded over music and video games. And who then, through an extraordinary wish, found themselves on a journey that made gaming history

I assume Ponting's busy looking for the 8 other jobs he'll have in the next 6 months. So LinkedIn maybe?